On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Bob Pawley <rjpawley@shaw.ca> wrote:
> What program are you using to look at the plain text file?
>
>
> Notepad
Did you at some point open the backup file with notepad, make a change
and then save it? If so notepad may have permanently mangled the
backup. If so, do you have an original unedited copy of the backup to
go to. If not, then I'm out of ideas.